Why I want to see Handoff for iTunes in iOS 10 so ludicrously much

With Handoff you'll be able to push now not simply knowledge however state among iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Imagine having that for iTunes... and for Apple TV?

This is my stunning iOS 10 media dream: Start binge gazing The Expanse on my Apple TV at night time, get drained, rise up and stroll to my room, swipe up at the Video icon on my iPad lock display, and stay proper on staring at. Get in the zone with a terrific Apple Music playlist at the same time as I'm running on my Mac, move to seize a few lunch, swipe up at the Music icon on my iPhone and stay proper on listening.

Handoff is a part of the Continuity options Apple presented in 2014. It permits you to transfer seamlessly from iPhone to iPad to Mac and again once more. You can get started an e mail in your iPhone after which transfer to Mac to in reality pound it out. You can prep a Keynote for your Mac after which make final-minute changes for your iPad proper ahead of the pitch. You will also get started a decision in your Apple Watch and whole it for your iPhone. For messaging, surfing, report modifying, and extra, it is ludicrously nice. As lengthy as you are logged into the similar Apple ID, and in proximity, the whole thing you do may also be began, endured, or completed on your whole units.

Almost.

Handoff recently does not paintings with anything else iTunes — track, films, TV presentations, and so forth. — or with the Apple TV.

Though Handoff shipped in 2014, Apple purchased Beats in 2015 and my bet is that — and the brand new Apple Music carrier that adopted — difficult issues. Figuring out how to convey the earlier into the longer term isn't any simple process.

I'd love to be in a position to get started a playlist on my Mac after which stroll away, pick out up my iPhone, swipe, and stay proper on listening.

The generation all turns out to be in position, even though. Continuity works via the use of Bluetooth LE to broadcast actions, then turns on the web, iCloud, or direct Wi-Fi switch to make that task's content material is to be had on different units to proceed the ones actions. So, iMore for Safari at the Mac may cause Safari for iPhone to load iMore as smartly. Keynote on iPad might lead to Keynote in your Mac to test for the present document in iCloud Drive and, if so, seize it. O part-composed Mail message at the iPhone would possibly push the content material of that Mail message proper to the iPad.

Doing Wi-Fi direct switch is fine with small information. Trying to push a 1.3 GB TV display document or 3-4 GB film document, on the other hand, is a completely other topic. That why I've stored this limited to iTunes and now not mentioned audio and video in common.

iTunes content material is stored on iCloud's servers: That's' how we are in a position to re-obtain song, films, and TV presentations we now have already bought. It's additionally how Apple Music can simply get started enjoying virtually any track any time you ask for it.

So, extending Handoff to iTunes may just make the most of the prevailing techniques. Apple ID may ensure that who is concerned in the transaction and that they are approved. Bluetooth LE might care for proximity and broadcast that you are listening or staring at, what you are listening or observing, and the place you're in the timeline. Pick up some other tool, and that request is going to Apple's servers, unearths the iTunes content material, and begins streaming from precisely that time.

We've already gotten the following era Apple Music carrier and the brand new Apple TV. All we'd like now's Handoff to tie all of it in combination.

Because Netflix and different streaming products and services paintings in a in a similar fashion cloud-centric means, my bet is they may paintings in a equivalent means for Handoff as smartly. You can already open the Netflix app on any software, in finding the display you have been gazing, and resume it. Handoff may simply make the method quicker — you should not have to open the app and in finding the display, you would simply swipe or faucet and stay observing.

Continuity, like extensibility and on-call for, is transformative. It unbundles apps, letting their discreet capability come to the place ever you're. It decouples the interface and adjustments it from pull to push. It's going to amendment the best way we use our units.

We've already gotten the following era Apple Music carrier and the all-new Apple TV. All we'd like now's Handoff to tie all of it in combination. Here's hoping iOS 10 can ship!

Would you want to see Continuity's Handoff function for iTunes and Apple TV? Let me understand!